Not sure how this one got by me, but in my last post, I touched on a few of the worst ideas in home construction that seem cool when you’re walking through a model. In my opinion, anyway. And, this morning I realized I’d forgotten a biggie: the whirlpool tub. Seriously, how many of you soak in a bath tub these days? I know the idea sounds relaxing, but I’m pretty sure the only time it happens is on reality TV or television commercials (“Calgon, take me away”). It really hit me recently when I was in a house-cleaning frenzy and decided to give my bathroom a real scrubbing, instead of the usual quick toilet, sink, floor going-over. No, this time I was going to tackle that porcelain monster – the whirlpool tub. The tub, which, by the way, hasn’t been used for bathing in years. The tub, which now serves as a very large valet for my husbands clothes – his gym clothes taking up one corner, yard-work clothes in another and shirts to go to the cleaners in a bag inside the tub. So, it does serve a function, I suppose. But, bathing? Not since our kids were little and we’d fill it with bubbles and turn on the jets. That’s a sure-fire way to get kids in the tub. These days, though, when I take the time and energy to make it look like a tub and not something you’d see on Hoarders (in case a guest might need to use our bathroom, which I don’t think has ever happened), I actually find myself dusting the tub instead of trying to remove soap scum from the sides. It’s just a really dumb attempt at a luxury feature. You know what would be real luxury for me? Lots and lots of closets. And a huge laundry room large enough to comfortably spread out to do the laundry and accommodate shoes and jackets, etc. THAT’S luxury. And, I’m sure that losing the ginormous soaking tub and incorporating my ideas instead, would be HUGE selling points in a house. Am I right or am I right? Yeah…that’s what I thought.

2 responses to “Forget The Whirlpool, Give Me Closet Space”

How right you are, Marilyn! The kids used to think I was taking them swimming when I would put them in the whirlpool tub and whirl them around. I used to give them goggles and snorkles in there too. The upside was that they were entertained and confined, they got clean and it sure tired them out. In addition to killing yourself getting in and out of the tub, mine was surrounded by carpeting. Now that builder really knew what he was doing. NOT!

Haha! There are so many ideas that were definitely thought up by men who never had to clean or deal with the practical nature of a home – like laundry rooms the size of a closet that are supposed to double as a “mud room”!!! Yeah, right!

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